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little surprises, big smiles

Follow this road; turn left, and you can visit Tamara where she does volunteer reading for children. In Korea, day care, preschool and kindergarten are similar. Korean kindergartens are all private, as children do not officially start school until grade one. There are many small schools like this in each neighborhood, and small yellow school buses.

I had free time before lunch, so I walked a few blocks from my school to surprised her and Kaiser. Tamara was in the middle of reading when I took her picture. When Tamara is doing her volunteer work, Kyz goes to the playroom because the boys just want to play and wrestle (all that fun boy stuff) when they should be listening.

I found some sheets of craft foam and made some throwing stars for Kyz. I found this army costume on sale and picked it up. We put it all together and headed to the park for civil defense drills.

I made three stars, one Batman mask and a helmet liner for the army helmet. I still have plenty of supplies for more stars and Batman gear–maybe some Batman chest armor.

For the stars, I made a pattern, cut the foam, perforated one side each, applied glue and inserted a heavy coin inside, then kept them under a heavy stack of books over night. The next day, I painted them, then gave them to their new owner. He likes them.

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I love it!! Thanks, Mark, for getting that awesome picture of Tamara reading to the kids!! It was so nice to see the place where she goes each week!! The kids loved your surprise photo, too! 🙂 Kaiser is blessed with a ‘creative’ Dad!